Effects of fluorine atoms amount and fluorinated acrylic chain length chemically attached to hydroxyl groups on the hydrophobic properties of cotton fabrics

• Main Authors: Liu, X., Yang, G., Vitali, Lipik
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Engineering::Materials; Hydrophobicity; Fluorinated Coating
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/143882
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A two-step chemical treatment of cotton fabric was performed with the attachment of fluorine moieties on hydroxyl group sites. The hydroxyl groups of cotton were initially acrylated by 2-isocyanaethyl methacrylate. Acrylic monomers, containing four to twelve fluorine atoms, had been used to build po...